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Comparing RFTG to Monopoly made me barf up a little, frankly.
by SubiculumCode 9y ago
Comparing RFTG to Monopoly made me barf up a little, frankly.
- viridian 9y agoMonopoly isn't even a bad game if you do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15822820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15822820 Somehow a particular set of house rules got popular enough to make everyone hate monopoly. It turns a game of high stakes, high commitment resource scuffling, into a game where you either get knocked out fast or are given enough free assets that you can only lose in the slowest, most agonizing way possible. It's kind of funny how a game designed to heavily favor aggression to make a point had that entire point negated by house rules.
- lmm 9y agoPeople feel the need to introduce a social safety net into a game of red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism. Maybe the game made its point after all.
- SubiculumCode 9y agohttp://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/02/introducing-modern-money-monopoly-mmm.html http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/02/introducing-moder... An interesting read